Sarah Barker Photographer

11/08/2026

Standing together against Hunter Valley Operations (HVO), the biggest coal project proposed in NSW history - and the 19 other coal mine expansions in the planning pipeline.

Lock The Gate Alliance - Raise your voice against coal mine expansions - Gadigal nura, 8 Aug 2026

17/07/2026

All the Zines sold at the Other Worlds Zine Fair are now available for purchase online at the link below.
Donations from sales go to the Civil Liberties Defence Centre (CLDC) ✊🏼☮️💜🤗

https://the-social-glue-of-sydney.square.site/shop/gadigal-to-gaza-zines/C57TABY34J7DS4CHN2ERTLRE

12/07/2026

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02/07/2026

Happy to be awarded an Honourable Mention for “We are the people”. Thank you IPPAWARDS - iPhone Photography Awards 🙏🏼🤳🏼
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02/07/2026

Honoured and delighted to be selected for Grieve 2026.
Many thanks Hunter Writers' Centre 🙏🏼

We're delighted to announce the selected works for the 2026 Grieve Project 🧡

This year's selection, drawn from hundreds of submissions across the country, includes poetry, prose, music, film, multi-media and the visual arts. These are stories of grief and loss, but also, as our curators discovered, stories of love.

“[The Grieve Project] is, beyond anything else, a project about love. It tells us that love is everywhere, that life in all its forms is to be treasured, and in today's world that is a message that bears repeating."

Read the full list of selected works at the link below.

🔗 hunterwriterscentre.org/grieve-2026

What's next: Grieve Project sponsors and In-Memoriam donors will now choose the recipients of this year's Sponsored Awards, with winners announced in August during National Grief Awareness Month.

Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their stories this year and to our partners, the National Association of Loss and Grief (NSW) and Pettigrew, and all of our sponsors and In-Memoriam donors, whose generosity makes Grieve possible.

23/06/2026

For International Portrait Day, 23 June - Ayla Bozdag, Nawal Amasheh and May Chung, from my series Small World, Big Family, 1995. The series was made to celebrate 50 years of post-war migration and exhibited at the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Nawal (centre) was born in Jerusalem where she studied Midwifery and General Nursing. She worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for 25 years as a nurse in health centres in refugee camps before being promoted to Area Nursing Officer. In 1989 Nawal came to Australia on a UNRWA scholarship sponsored by Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA to study post-graduate Community Nursing at Cumberland College of Health Sciences. After returning to Jordan, Nawal and her family decided to move to Australia.

Ayla (left) was born in Adana, Turkey, and came to Australia in 1969 with her parents and three siblings. Ayla worked as a Health Worker for six years with Women's Health in Industry, an umbrella group of the Leichhardt and Liverpool Women's Health Centre. She then worked for Cabramatta Community Centre as a Welfare Officer for three years.

May was born in Hong Kong and in 1979 went to the PRC to study Medical Science for six years. She practised as a physician in China for one year before returning to Hong Kong where she passed her doctors examinations and practiced as a physician for 18 months. May then worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative. She came to Australia at the end of 1991 and studied Marketing Management and advanced Chinese and English for interpreting and translating, which she completed in 1994. May worked as a casual interpreter at Ontrack Employment working with people with disabilities.

In 1995 Ayla, Nawal and May were Bilingual Liaison Officers at Auburn Hospital.

https://www.sarahbarkerphotographer.com/ #/small-world-big-family/

26/05/2026

Today marks the 29th National Sorry Day.

Sorry Day is a day to acknowledge the Stolen Generations, First Nations babies and children who were forcibly removed from their families, communities, Country and culture under past government policies.

Today, we acknowledge the deep hurt, grief and continuing impacts of those forced removals on Stolen Generations Survivors, their families and descendants. The ripple effects of those policies are still felt today.

Please check in with your First Nations family, loved ones, friends and colleagues. Be mindful of how today may be impacting people around you — even passers-by and strangers you meet throughout the day.

Today, we say Sorry.
Coota Girls Aboriginal Corporation

24/04/2026

“Save the Forests” series by Sarah Barker Photographer at the Px3 Paris Photography Prize exhibition in Ostuni, Italy 🤗🙏🏼

24/04/2026

Grateful and happy to be selected as a finalist in the Burwood Art Prize. 🙏🏼🤗